Английская Википедия:Eliakim Doolittle
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Eliakim Doolittle (August 29, 1772 – April 1850)Шаблон:Sfn was an American composer, schoolteacher, and singing teacher, the younger brother of Amos Doolittle, first cousin of composers Reuben Munson and Amos Munson, and uncle of senator James R. Doolittle.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn His most well-known composition was the hymn tune "Exhortation",Шаблон:Sfn a fuging tune that was first printed in The Musical Harmonist Шаблон:Harv and later included in The Sacred Harp.Шаблон:Sfn
Biography
Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, the son of Ambrose Doolittle and Martha Munson, he attended Yale University (then Yale College), gaining the reputation as a composer, but did not graduate, and became a school- and singing- teacher.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He married Hasadiah Fuller in 1811, with whom he had six children (one son and five daughters), and lived in Hampton, New York.Шаблон:Sfn
His Psalm Singer's Companion Шаблон:Harv was 41 compositions (covering 48 pages) of psalm music for four voices,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn out of a total of 45 works that he composed.Шаблон:Sfn
Such works included Solemnity, another hymn tune published in Asahel Benham's Social Harmony in 1798, and the war song The Hornet Stung The Peacock that celebrated the 1813 sinking of HMS Peacock.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Later in life Doolittle suffered from what is now understood to be dementia; he was then living in Pawlet, Vermont,Шаблон:Sfn where 19th-century chronicler of that village Hiel Hollister described him graphically as "nervous and sensitive, impulsive and excitable, in tattered garb, with untrimmed locks and beard, in a state bordering on insanity, [wandering] through our streets for many a year",Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn before entering the Washington County poorhouse in Argyle where he eventually died.Шаблон:Sfn
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